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Nehalem Bay State Park

September 2017

Camp with Horses and Ride this Oregon Beach by Kim Roe   Is it on your bucket list to gallop your horse across a beautiful sandy beach and play in the ocean waves? Do you love camping and want to bring your horse along on your vacation? On Oregon’s north …

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How to Find a Trainer

August 2017

Tips for Choosing Your Best Match by Kim Roe   Recently I attended a clinic given by someone I find gentle, patient, and classical. I enjoy riding with this trainer because I know my horse will be safe and I won’t be pushed into an uncomfortable place that I can’t …

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Horse Training is a Lifelong Pursuit

August 2017

A Journey of Discovery by Kim Roe   One of my favorite poems is Riding Lesson, by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Henry Taylor. I learned two things from an early riding teacher. He held a nervous filly in one hand and gestured with the other, saying “­­­Listen. Keep one …

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Unconventional Performance Horses

Horses with Heart Rise Above Traditional Roles by Kim Roe   In 1992, the well-known reined cow horse trainer Bobby Ingersoll rode into the National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno on a 3-year-old Kiger Mustang named Kiger Tiger. Kiger Tiger was a born-wild colt that Bobby …

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Western Dressage

July 2017

Systematic Training for the Western Horse by Kim Roe   Are you interested in the precision, flow, and systematic training of dressage, but enjoy your western saddle, tack, and horse? Well, check out western dressage! As in traditional dressage, western dressage is performed in a 20 by 60-meter arena. Letters …

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Bumps in the Road

July 2017

Finding Answers for Training Problems by Kim Roe   Early in the year I sit down and outline long-term and short-term goals for each of my performance horses. I then strategize a training protocol that will help me get there. Unfortunately, with horses our goals often have to change. Horses …

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My Favorite Things

The Training Tack & Equipment I Can’t Do Without by Kim Roe   Recently I read the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. Like many others who read this bestseller, it prompted a frenzy of cleaning and unloading …

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Kim McElroy, Equine Artist

Horses and Her Muse by Kim Roe   Kim McElroy is a well-known equine artist from Washington state. For more than 20 years her pastels have been found on popular greeting cards, collectibles, and fine art prints. Her visions of horses portray the power and beauty of the horse’s form, …

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Paula Helm, Saddle Fitter

Making Horses and Riders Comfortable by Kim Roe   Paula Helm is an in-demand and respected saddle fitter in the Northwest. Warm and cheerful, she is known as a tenacious hard-worker with an infectious enthusiasm. Paula won’t quit until she knows the saddle is right for both horse and rider. …

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Horses and Their People

A Supportive Tribe by Kim Roe   One of my favorite picture books as a child told the story of a woman who owned a barn full of horses of every color.  Each day she went out to the barn, walked down the row of stalls, and chose one of …

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